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I Know Dogs Are More Popular Than Babies but Hear Me Out
You don’t actually have to choose
Crotch dropping. Rugrat. Crib lizard. Semen demon. Brat.
Nobody likes children anymore. Cats and dogs have taken their places.
It’s completely acceptable today for people to talk shit about human babies and to insist one’s fur babies are equal to — or better than — a human child.
If I said, “Oh my gawd, I can’t believe you got a puppy. They’re the worst. It’s going to shit everywhere and tear up your stuff and stink up your sofa,” I’d be figuratively beaten to death.
And I’d deserve it, too, because dogs are amazing. I have two dogs, both older mixes adopted from a shelter. I love and adore and spoil them.
But I read the equivalent shit-talk about human children all the time.
Why is this OK?
It’s not.
Not to me, anyway. I have two children and now two grandchildren and you know what?
I adore them. I couldn’t wait to have them. I waited impatiently until I was out of college and had been married for a couple of years. I gave birth to one when I was 23 and the second when I was…
